The big red peace bus...

[Little she-bear]

7:00pm Students Union St Andrews

The Big Red Double Decker Peace Bus is touring Fife this Thursday, a familiar sight to anyone that has been on any Glasgow anti-war demos.

It comes complete with loud PA system, driver, thousands of leaflets
posters and petitions. Anyone is welcome to come along and give a
hand leafletting petitioning flyposting and speaking. Newsnight
cameras and other press will be in attendance.

Please come along and support the bus and listen to speaches from
prominent Fifers.

To press: Occupants will be available for interviewing at these
locations.

[Guest]

Anyone is welcome? Even pro-war people? Great, this should be fun.

[Rennie]

You pro-war people wouldn't have the balls to go to the bus

[Cola Cube]

Yes because all pro-war people are well known as evil violent people. I'd be too scared too.

[RRankin]

"The Big Red Double Decker Peace Bus"? It's almost enough to drive me into a pro-war position!

[Rennie]

No, my point was that they wouldn't have a leg to stand on, especially in the face of so much logical opposition.

[Homer]

And the fact you could run them over in said bus.

[Cain]

The bus went to Glasgow last year. It went to the QMU, but the security guards said "we can't have a great big bus like your one sat outside out building. we need access and you're creating a traffic problem."

he turned his back and walked back inside. the bus began to drive off, but in doing so, pranged a car parked outside the QMU.

Hearing the noise of crumpling metal, the security guard runs back out, looks at the Peace bus, looks at the crunched car and asks "was that you?"

While the Peace bus driver tries (in vain) to deny it, people from inside the QMU throw their windows open and point at the bus shouting with one voice "IT WAS THEM!"

amazing. but true


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whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance

[Little she-bear]

[s]Cain wrote on 23:15, 27th Feb 2003:
Hearing the noise of crumpling metal, the security guard runs back out, looks at the Peace bus, looks at the crunched car and asks "was that you?"


*giggles*

[Guest]

[s]Rennie wrote on 20:23, 27th Feb 2003:
You pro-war people wouldn't have the balls to go to the bus




I passed it, in black tie, and told them i was pro war.

[Rennie]

OOO aren't you daring Mr Pro War.. Passing the bus and telling them you were Pro-War. For fucks sake, that's the lamest thing i've heard in a long time. Why didn't you fucking stand there and argue your case for a war against Iraq then rather than walking past, turning round and saying (probably too quiet for anyone to hear but your idiotic friends surrounding you) "I support George Bush". Becuase you didn't do that, and therefore sums up my arguement that the pro-war can't come up with logical arguements in order to change the beliefs and thoughts of anti-war or undecided people. And that's what you need to do, because as the opinion polls state, there's a lot more of us than there are of you.

[Cola Cube]

Because all pro-war people support George Bush. Sheesh. Maybe he had something better to be going to rather than stand and argue with a bunch of people who wouldn't listen anyway, being that it was an anti-war drive and like it or not, pro-war peope would have at the most just been frowned at.

there's a lot more of us than there are of you

Nice to see you using the mature arguement.

[Anon.]

The views of those who oppose the war (and indeed, those who support it) are utterly irrelevant - it is going to happen, and kicking up a big fuss about it isn't going to make a blind bit of difference.

[Guest]

[s]Rennie wrote on 13:57, 28th Feb 2003:
Why didn't you fucking stand there and argue your case for a war against Iraq then rather than walking past, turning round and saying (probably too quiet for anyone to hear but your idiotic friends surrounding you) "I support George Bush".

Actually i wasn't with a group of people. The person trying to give me a leaflet was, I believe, the leader of the Scottish Socialist party in St Andrews (He was the one who introduced Tommy Sheridan at the anti war meeting on monday that i went to, out of interest)and so is unlikely to be persuadable. Anyway, I was late for for my party.

Becuase you didn't do that, and therefore sums up my arguement that the pro-war can't come up with logical arguements in order to change the beliefs and thoughts of anti-war or undecided people. And that's what you need to do, because as the opinion polls state, there's a lot more of us than there are of you.


It would show a poor degree of intellegence in you if you really thought there can not be logical arguements for both sides in this debate; but then you are a management student, so perhaps that would be expecting too much. This war will happen regardless of how many loud demos there are, public protest is very overated in its capacity to influence modern governments. The people who are protesting are not an electoral threat to the government - they aint going to vote tory in protest. Bush and Blair are certain to get their next term in office in the event of victory.

[Rennie]

Cola Cube, just because i slagged off the stupid fucking gaelic language doesn't mean you have to go round all the threads going against what I say and nit picking.

The point I was making about there being 'a lot more of us than you' was that the public are clearly not supporting this war, and as we live in a democracy (supposedly ! ha) then it should be the will of the people, not the minority + 1 (Blair).

I also feel that whatever happens, the war will happen. But i also feel that if people lie down and accept it, it will lead the media (who can turn things round very easily and with massive effect) to then come out and say in unison, 'Bomb Iraq'

As i have said many times before, I believe that Saddam should not be left in power (although it suited us 15 years ago - so as Tom Plant rightly pointed out, we CANNOT fight this war on moral grounds) but there must be more peaceful means to take him out rather than 'unleashing hell' on Iraq in the first few days with teh largest concentration of bombing ever seen in the shortest period of time.

Unregistered User, for a start, i'm guessing you're a medic with that stuck up attitude. And, if you're so open about your views that you feel confident enough to say them to a group of anti-war protestors then why don't you register on the site and show us who you really are. The people aren't a threat to Blair you say? Well, if the majority in the country don't support a war on Iraq, then come next elections Blair might get a shock. For a prime minister who relies mainly on opinion polls he is taking a major gamble with his career.

And, this is the last comment i'm ever making on this subject, ever. I'm sick of repeating myself for the purposes of idiots.

[Cola Cube]

Unsurprisingly I have better things to do than go around looking for your posts, though most of them are quite amusing. While I wouldn't fault your arguements it is a bit off that you flame and slag off people over the tiniest thing, making yourself look like an idiot.

Or at least, so far that seems to be the case.

[Prophet Tenebrae]

The bus will probably attract more bombs. Being large and red, the USA will automatically assume it's the red cross or something and blow it to smithereens.

[DeepBlue]

[s]Prophet Tenebrae wrote on 16:57, 28th Feb 2003:
The bus will probably attract more bombs. Being large and red, the USA will automatically assume it's the red cross or something and blow it to smithereens.


The red cross has oil?

[Prophet Tenebrae]

Yeah, no doubt their links to Al'Qaeda are soon to be proven by the FBI.

[Guest]

[s]Rennie wrote on 16:26, 28th Feb 2003:
The people aren't a threat to Blair you say? Well, if the majority in the country don't support a war on Iraq, then come next elections Blair might get a shock. For a prime minister who relies mainly on opinion polls he is taking a major gamble with his career.


Blair has got the most sucessfull antenna in british political history of what is an isn't politically possible - thats what cheers me up, if he thinks he can ignore anti-war protesters, then it can be done. Also, i'm not a medic.